Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, Clive James has been a dedicated student. For him, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of his lifetime, and here he ...(Read More)

Between 1870 and 1970, 27 million migrants left Italy to work and live abroad, spreading their rich language and literary traditions around the world. This comprehensive bilingual anthology presents ...(Read More)

Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge were lifelong friends. They were also the daughters of poetic geniuses and best friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who ushered in Romanticism ...(Read More)

There's something about a good author photo that seems to give us extra insight into their works, as if the look in their eyes somehow explains their view on the world. This album profiles 250 of the ...(Read More)

Not only the god of the sea but also of floods, earthquakes, and horses, Poseidon was a central figure in the ancient Greeks' religious practices. Referencing historical research and what can be ...(Read More)

Translated in numerous languages and read around the world, this prose poem is the best known and best loved of Kahlil Gibran's writings. His protagonist, the Prophet, is leaving the land of his ...(Read More)

"Years ago, I was asked by a member of a Rambling Club to which I belonged, what was the meaning of the word Lychgate. Not being able to give an explanation, I took the first opportunity of looking ...(Read More)

This delight of a book is perfect bedside company. Packed with delicious anecdotes and fun facts for every day of the year—including birthdates and death anniversaries of authors—this is a wonderful ...(Read More)

Despite being one of England's great novelists, and her work already having been widely studied, Virginia Woolf herself remained largely an enigma before the appearance of this 1972 book, a ...(Read More)

Written in the slums of Paris by a man who was a literary failure in his homeland, Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 by a pornographer in France, but was soon banned in the United States ...(Read More)